The Birth of an Organising Union

Sources and further reading
A range of historical newspaper sources
were researched for this publication,
including the Sydney Morning Herald;
Worker (Sydney); Evening News; Sunday
Times; People; The Catholic Press;
Western Herald (Bourke); Barrier Miner;
Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers
Advocate; Bombala Times and Monaro
and Coast Districts General Advertiser.
Photograph sources: pp.5, 7, 10, 12, 13, 14,
15, 17, 23, 24, 26, 34 State Library of NSW;
p.39, National Library of Australia.
For further details of the establishment
of the Trolly, Draymen, and Carters’ Union
and its formative years see Mark Bray and
Malcolm Rimmer, Delivering the Goods, a
history of the NSW Transport Workers Union
1888-1986, Allen & Unwin Sydney 1987.
Note on spelling
The union was registered as the Trolly,
Draymen and Carters’ Union and all early
material, including the union’s banner,
uses this spelling. Later accounts have at
times referred to the Trolley, Draymen and
Carters’ Union. This book uses the spelling
as designated by the union’s founding
members in 1901.
About the author
Dr Mark Hearn has published a number
of books and articles in the historical
and contemporary analysis of work
and unions, including Working Lives,
A History of the Australian Railways
Union (NSW Branch), Hale & Iremonger
1990; One Big Union, a national history
of the Australian Workers Union,
1886-1994 (co-authored with Harry
Knowles), Cambridge University Press,
1996 and Working the Nation, Working
Life and Federation, 1890-1914, (coedited
with Greg Patmore), Pluto
Press 2001. He was the co-editor of
Rethinking Work: Time Space Discourse,
published by Cambridge University
Press 2006. During 2002-2005 he was
a sesquicentenary post-doctoral fellow
in Work and Organisational Studies
at the University of Sydney. He is
currently a lecturer in the Department of
Modern History and Politics, Macquarie
University. Dr Hearn is the co-editor of
the online workplace relations magazine
workSite and an associate editor of
Labour History.
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